[FIXED] How to install recharts with react v18?

Issue

I try to install recharts in my app using react v 18. When I put npm install recharts in my terminal, it throws :

npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree
npm ERR! Found: react@18.1.0
npm ERR! node_modules/react
npm ERR!   react@"^18.1.0" from the root project
npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
npm ERR! peer react@"^16.0.0 || ^17.0.0" from recharts@2.1.9

Is there an other way to do it while the library gets updated or is it better to go back to the old version of react?

Here is my package.json: { "name": "project-name", "version": "0.1.0",

 "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.16.4",
    "@testing-library/react": "^13.2.0",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^13.5.0",
    "react": "^18.1.0",
    "react-dom": "^18.1.0",
    "react-router-dom": "^6.3.0",
    "react-scripts": "5.0.1",
    "sass": "^1.51.0",
    "web-vitals": "^2.1.4"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": [
      "react-app",
      "react-app/jest"
    ]
  },
  "browserslist": {
    "production": [
      ">0.2%",
      "not dead",
      "not op_mini all"
    ],
    "development": [
      "last 1 chrome version",
      "last 1 firefox version",
      "last 1 safari version"
    ]
  }
}

Thank you !

Solution

You can run this command:

npm install recharts --force

But this can cause bugs as Recharts doesn't support react 18 for now. Another option is to use the previous version of React 17.0.2:

npm uninstall react react-dom
npm install react@17.0.2 react-dom@17.0.2

This way you guarantee that you won't have any problems, because recharts is fully compatible with React version 17.

Answered By - Rich Elton
Answer Checked By - - Clifford M. (ReactFix Volunteer)